American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 112
- Number 5
- November 1955
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1955
Pages328–333Psychotherapy is a planned and organized pattern of action designed to cure or alleviate a mental illness or a morbid emotional state. Psychotherapy shades off, by almost imperceptible degrees, into a great variety of efforts to use mental influences to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.5.328Publication date: 01 November 1955
Pages343–348In this double-blind study of the effect of Frenquel on 39 chronically hospitalized disturbed psychotic patients, the investigators were entirely unaware of whether the patients were receiving Frenquel or the placebo until after they had committed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.5.343Publication date: 01 November 1955
Pages349–353Thirty schizophrenic "dullards" were given a full course of insulin coma therapy, combined, in 10 patients, with electroplexy. The results are discussed and compared with those of the same treatment in schizophrenic patients of originally average normal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.5.349Publication date: 01 November 1955
Pages354–357The purpose of this paper is to present briefly Jung's theory of archetypes and to illustrate it with specific case material. An archetype is described as an inherent pattern of psychic function common to all human beings and thought to be inherited with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.5.354Publication date: 01 November 1955
Pages358–365Adrenocortical function of chronic schizophrenics was investigated. The concentration of adrenal steroids (17-hydroxycorticosteroids) in the peripheral blood was determined at 8 am.; after the intravenous administration of various amounts of ACTH or of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.5.358Publication date: 01 November 1955
Pages375–381On the basis of our observations, it may be said that bilateral prefrontal lobotomy has proved a useful tool in the treatment of many cases of chronic mental disease where conservative treatment has failed. There is no indication, however, that the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.5.375Publication date: 01 November 1955
Pages382–3861. A case of acute catatonic excitement terminated by fatal lower nephron nephrosis is described. 2. The importance of anticipating and precluding such a progression of pathophysiology is emphasized. 3. Available studies on the fluid, metabolic, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.5.382Publication date: 01 November 1955
Pages387–389Any intracranial space-taking lesion may have as its presenting complaint psychiatric symptoms. In some the psychiatric picture is the only or almost the only evidence of the disease. In mental institutions it has been shown that the incidence of brain ...
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